He's had a year off to regroup and get his head into the game. Do the Jets try and restructure his contract and let him come back in and compete with Geno or has that bridge been burned? Looks to me like the Jets are going to have to look at QB again next year even if Geno starts to look somewhat better in the next 5 games.
How do you not? You QB situation is Garrard , Simms, and Smith. You need to have a veteran on the roster. You can't afford to lose picks so trading for a QB should not be on the gable when they need their picks to improve the team z Free agent wise who would you get that is a better option than Sanchez? He knows the offense , showed in pre-season he was capable of leading the offense and putting points on the board, and if you use the draft and freed up money to improve skill positions you suddenly create and environment for a QB to succeed.
Sanchez turned the ball over in all 3 pre session Games showing he's still turnover prone. We have enough of that. Time to move on.
We do nothing until we can find a replacement (we don't have one now). If we have someone else who can come in we talk about a pay cut or release him, otherwise we pay the man and rent him for another year. Until June 4th we can think it over though.
Let's say Sanchez played this year and be 60% comp, 24TD, 16 INT ... Would people say he sucked, he is t good enough, or it was impressive considering the talent around him? All the people making excuses for Geno keep complaining about talent all over the offense. If that is the case the team needs to address those deficiencies first and foremost. In Reade the talent and after that evaluate your QB. Unless an NFL qb drops to them in the draft that they are very high on you are limited at the qb spot next season.
Mark Sanchez...the only quarterback in NFL history who gets better when he's not playing (at least in the eyes of battered Jet fans).
I'm not saying he has gotten better - I am saying he is better than Geno Smith and will probably be a better option than any free agent veteran that is available this off season. Seeing Mark in this new offense with better skill players obtained via the draft/free agency is more appealing than bringing in Matt Moore to battle Geno Smith in camp. If mark reduces his salary with a chance to battle geno in camp I see nothing wrong with that. If Geno can't win that battle you know he will never be the guy and the Jets will address the QB spot in the 2015 draft but already improve skill positions in 2014 to make that an easier transition with a young QB. if you go 1st round QB in 2014 you once again pass on a top tier WR, TE, LB, S, etc..
The best things about these threads...it brings out all the Sanchez sycophants. And some people wonder why this team is in a constant state of flux? Those people on here who are always clamoring for Sanchez and Braylon Edwards to be brought back, I feel for you. It's almost like some don't realize there's this whole great world of NFL talent outside of the retread zone known as Jets has beens. Of course we won't bring Sanchez back next year. His ridiculous $8.5 million cap number is one of the major reasons that this team is so pathetic on offense. His huge number prevented us from addressing many other needs on this team, mostly on offense. Not to mention how awful he was on the field. It's time to turn the page. We need new blood in this franchise. We need a brand new offense (QB, WR's, RB, TE). The quickest and most cap effective way to do this is through the draft with rookie contracts. QB is obviously the engine that drives everything else. Forget all other positions until you address the real problem which is this. With plenty of top QB talent in the draft, the Jets should do well in the 1st round as long as their "great scouting dept" doesn't mess it up.
They can re-work that number to something cap friendly if both sides want to. You can't address everything through the draft and they really need to focus on skill players in the draft aside from QB. Who did they pass on in round 2 to select smith though would have helped this offense? They need to avoid a QB in 2014 draft, stick with what they have, and say let's see how the QB plays with better skill players around him. The biggest issues is skill players on the Jets -- you can't fix that drafting a QB and putting him around the same skill players.
We already know what Sanchez gives us so he's gone. Maybe we get rid of Geno or maybe we keep him around as a backup as he's low commitment cap wise. I have no problem with getting rid of both. Neither are clearly the long term answer.
I'm not going to turn this into a S S thread but Jets fans will be jumping off roofs next season if Sanchez is the guy and he starts throwing picks again and folding in the pocket. The simple answer right now is that the Jets don't have anybody who looks capable of being a plus QB. They know less about Simms than anybody else so he is the guy of the moment. They knew less about Geno than Sanchez so he looked like the best option in September. Bringing back the guy we know too much about isn't the answer. Go look at Kyle Boller's history with the Ravens in depth. Bringing Sanchez back would be revisiting that kind of timeline.
There are 7 million reasons why. The Jets aren't paying a QB all that money who "may" be the starter.
The Jets need to do it right for once. Other teams draft good QB's in most years so why can't the Jets? This 2014 draft is chock full of top QB's unlike the 2013 draft where we reached for one when honestly, it was a very weak QB class. Thankfully with the new rookie contract structure, making a mistake on Geno won't cost us for years like Sanchez did. Yes we need skill players but we need to address QB either through the draft or via FA. I would draft one early as there's a lot of talent this year. We can also spend other early picks on WR and TE. But until QB is honestly addressed, this recurring nightmare will play on year after year. And seriously you need to move on from Sanchez. He's just as bad as Geno.
It might be a problem with coaching staff tho maybe the problem is not the QBs but QBs coaches or they are proven elsewhere?
Look what happened after Kyle Boller though..Super Bowl! Look the draft is only going to bring in so much talent -- they need to get lucky with some UDFA --teams that succeed have a guy or two that becomes a big part of it as a very late round pick or a guy no one drafted. If they can pick up one of the top QBs in the 2014 draft they might not be able to resist, but they still need upgraded. Winslow will be gone so they will need another TE. Holmes will be gone so they will need another WR and will still be lacking a #1 WR. Kerley, Hill and a draft pick scare anyone? You can go out and take a QB and pass up on a top skill player or bite the bullet, go hard core offense skill player, defense in FA, and see what your QBs can do on a 1 year trial run. Be it Sanchez as the guy or Smith or Simms...but right now can you go out and draft another QB hoping for amazing results if you fail to upgrade the skill positions yet again? Offense has been ignored for years and it is glaring.
At some point it becomes less the coaches and the players themselves. QB busts don't find themsleves out of the league moaning "If only I had a better QB coach...". The problem is Geno and Sanchez both showed some promise and talent and then regressed. I can't blame the ocahed for that. They piut the players on the fast track and theywere succesful early. The QBs need to build on that and get better.
The draft run from 2007 to 2010 is really biting the Jets hard now. They got great players at the front of that span and the end in Revis and Wilkerson but very little else out of the 4 year run. There are several ways they can go at this point in terms of stabilizing things but all of them share one thing in common which is a heavy emphasis on bringing in talent on the offense. It's a no-brainer that they need to have a real QB competition in camp next year. Not to sort out who is the least bad QB but to find out who is capable of playing at a high level when well supported. To make that work they need to bring in some talent on the offensive side of the ball and really they need at least some of it to be firing on all cylinders from the start. The problem is that they don't want to overpay for somebody else's good player who wants star money. That's just not going to work. They don't want damaged goods either. They particularly want to avoid overpaying for damaged goods. I'm guessing that the Jets draft at least 3 WR's next year and probably one very early. I'm guessing that they take a QB at some point with an eye towards developing him alongside Geno Smith. Having two good prospects gives you two chances at hitting paydirt. The open question is whether or not the Jets think they have critical mass on the offensive line or whether they think they need to make an early pick there as well before the 3rd round is over.
